12-07-2006 08:46
Instead of focusing and dedicating time to a revamped feature proposal voting tool, wouldn't it be more useful to make a bug fix voting tool and make a commitment to fix bugs with the most votes?

I know the standard reply is to point out that there are various teams that can work independently, but there isn't a single part of SL that doesn't need some polishing up. The "focus beta" has some new "ooo shiny!" things in it as far as UI goes, yet again it is an update that doesn't bother to fix existing UI specific problems.

Right now you don't even get so much as a "yes, this is indeed a bug" automated email after it's been looked at, or that it's been looked at all for that matter. There are bugs that were verified as far back as June, do I just keep wasting time resubmitting them every single update? This past weekend I filed 7 and only received confirmation for 5 of them. Where is the incentive to keep taking the time to test, write it out and submit when even the bug reporting tool itself doesn't work some of the time?

If all of us could see everyone else's bug reports, we could add our own personal findings, different reproductions, and significantly limit the number of duplicate reports you have to deal with, as well as make them far more useful to the people that have to test and triage them.

Please don't point to the known issues page, it doesn't include a variety of issues, regardless of being perfectly reproducable and the issues that are listed don't seem to get fixed either.